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[Vipfreak]

One you got silly.

[STOCK-trix]

Vipfreak, on 13 June 2012 - 08:42 PM, said:

One you got silly.

ohhhh you might have to try to change it to an english firmware. Have you played with the settings yet?

[Vipfreak]

Lol, if I understood Korean sure...

[Cruxless]

Off an impulse buy I picked up a Kodak Playsport Zx5 from Best Buy on Sunday, 06/10/2012, for $69.99. Click Here for details.

[Vipfreak]

STOCK-trix, on 13 June 2012 - 08:45 PM, said:

Have you played with the settings yet?

I got everything to be in english last night. Are there setting other than the ones I don't know about?

[STOCK-trix]

Vipfreak, on 14 June 2012 - 01:18 PM, said:

STOCK-trix, on 13 June 2012 - 08:45 PM, said:

Have you played with the settings yet?

I got everything to be in english last night. Are there setting other than the ones I don't know about?

So you've either installed or ran the blackvue program that's in the SD card right? You can adjust the sensitivity the motion sensors that trigger event recordings as well disabling the lights on the actual blackvue (could be distracting at night), Also just make sure your time zone is correct. I had trouble with the 16GB Samsung MicroSD that came with my camera, I always got errors and corrupt recordings but ever since I upgraded to a Patriot 32GB LX series class 10 MicroSD card I haven't had any problems.

[Vipfreak]

Yeah, got all that down, no errors or anything. The one question I have (which the manual doesn't cover) is how does parking mode work? Is there an internal battery? I have it temp plugged into the sig lighter. Gonna hard wire later.

[STOCK-trix]

Vipfreak, on 14 June 2012 - 10:04 PM, said:

Yeah, got all that down, no errors or anything. The one question I have (which the manual doesn't cover) is how does parking mode work? Is there an internal battery? I have it temp plugged into the sig lighter. Gonna hard wire later.

You will only be able to take advantage of parking mode if you supply it with constant power. Our cigarette lighters only give power when the key is in ACC or when the car is on, so we won't be able to use it unless you hook it up directly to a constant 12v source, perhaps somewhere in the fuse box. Supposedly the internal battery is only for it to shut off safely and save the recording once 12v source is cut off. Once in parking mode, it records if there is motion or if the actual gyro sensor ( Dunno if im using the correct term) threshold gets tripped. ie. if someone stuff moves past the camera or if your car gets shaken or bumped it'll start recording. And I guess if it detects movement or motion long enough it will engage into normal recording mode again. From the forum where I got mine from, some people are reporting heat issues with the blackvue. People that use parking mode have seem to run into problems with the camera overheating or randomly restarting.

I personally don't have it hardwired to a 12v source but only to the cig lighter.

[Vipfreak]

Oh ok, hmm... good to know. Speaking of heat... when my car is parked I have a one of those foil sun shades I put up on the whole front windshield. Can the camera withstand high heat like that... ? Solutions? I'd rather not have to take it off everytime since I do that with my head unit...

[Vipfreak]

Random Night shot! xD

[MatrixDom]

Thats a clear shot bruh

[Cruxless]

Here's my douchebag driving skills at work. Aside from that, the video shows off Atlant's first Diverging Diamond Interchange.
Details: This video was taken with a Kodak Play Sport Zx5 (set to 1080p record mode). As you can see the weather conditions were poor which caused the auto focus on the camera to continuously search for something to focus on. All in all the camera is great for light on the go recording, but I wouldn't recommend using it as a dedicated dashcam. On another note, I know my driving sucks, but idgaf. I've been driving like this for more than 15 years and I don't see it changing (for the better) any time soon.

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Vipfreak, on 15 June 2012 - 12:18 AM, said:

Oh ok, hmm... good to know. Speaking of heat... when my car is parked I have a one of those foil sun shades I put up on the whole front windshield. Can the camera withstand high heat like that... ? Solutions? I'd rather not have to take it off everytime since I do that with my head unit...

Mine has been fine and I have no shade for it at all and my trix is driveway parked out in the open too. I think it's only those people that use parking mode that have issues because their cams run 24/7. One solution I've seen is someone hacked up the casing of the cam and stuck a heatsink to to either the gps module or cpu. lol

Vipfreak, on 16 June 2012 - 03:25 AM, said:

Random Night shot! xD

nise nise!

You could check out this thread, there's some good info in here: http://forums.redfla...4-18-a-1147913/

[Vipfreak]

Cool. I'll keep the link in mind. Thanks

[Cruxless]

The mail person surprised me with a Blackvue DR400G-HD today. Happy Birthday to me...

[Vipfreak]

Nice!

[Cruxless]

I'm planning on installing it tomorrow, granted I'm not too hung over from tonight.

[Cruxless]

^ Well I got it installed. Though I'm not completely pleased with having it plugged into the front of the shifter bezel cigarette lighter, it just dosen't look clean to me. I'm considering a few alternative options, one being running the cord to the cigarette lighter in the center arm rest, the other is ordering another power cord, one that I can freely hack up and attempt to tap into the back of the shifter bezel cigarette lighter. For now I'll leave it as is. I'll update with pics later today.

Edited by Cruxless, 30 June 2012 - 08:43 AM.

[dnm]

These 400G's seem to suffer from a nearly 100% failure rate (go read threads on group buys), because they're not properly cooled and overheat and fry themselves.

Mine is no exception; gotta send it back for warranty.

[Vipfreak]

Eek, yeah. I've been worried about mine since summer hit. When my car is not moving it's baking because I have my window blind up. Haven't thought of any good ways to prevent this. Maybe a relocation mount farther in the cabin away from the window. Maybe some way of piping cold air to it while on.